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Peering has come a long way since the formation of what was arguably the first settlement-free exchange of internet traffic, the Commercial Internet eXchange in Reston, Virginia, in 1991. Today there are over 600 IXs around the globe helping to peer thousands of IP networks. The internet and the technology that underpins it is a very different landscape in 2022 than it was in 1991.

HostedGraphite provides a complete infrastructure and application monitoring platform from a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Use Hosted Graphite and view all required metrics on beautiful dashboards in real time. Hosted Graphite offers a wide range of tools, add-ons, and plugins which make it possible to measure, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data about your applications with ease.

It is getting spooky out there, folks! Every year on October 31, we don our spookiest (or silliest) garb, an evolution of old practices where people would dress up to ward off ghouls, goblins and all manner of things that go bump in the night. After all, people believed these pesky spirits stirred up trouble. While pieces of this spooky tradition persist, just a few other things have changed in the past 2,000 years. For starters, we are a digital society.

Typically, startup founders and executives must meet with their board of directors each quarter to review the progress of the company. They may talk about broad topics such as total costs and total revenue, and use these numbers as a guide to determine which moves the company should make in the near future. Often missing from the conversation, however, is a clear and detailed discussion of SaaS metrics.

There is a famous quote that goes like this…‘For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.’ At least in the world of incident response, nothing is more apt than this. Digital infrastructure these days is made up of multiple services, an outage could result from either one impacted service or multiple impacted services. So it's essential to have a catalog of all the services along with the point of contact (service owner) responsible for maintaining it.

Netdata’s Cassandra collector documentation explains how to set it up to collect metrics automatically. Once you have followed the instructions in the docs and have installed and configured Netdata on the Cassandra cluster you are ready to start monitoring and troubleshooting.

Welcome to Part II of this three-part mini-series on bridging the gap between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) in Industry 4.0. In Part I, we set the stage for the remainder of the series and gave an overview of IT and OT, the two technological layers of modern industrial factories. In this blog, we expand on that knowledge by confronting the two domains and discussing the automation pyramid concept.